Toshio Ozaki is Who Okabe Rintarou and Lelouch Wanted to Be

I never understood people’s fascination with Okabe and Lelouch . I find them both to be very half assed. They can’t quite follow through what they wanted to do and they always fuck things out. On the other-hand, Toshio Ozaki from Shiki is different. He is so badass that he knew what he wanted to do within 8 episodes and what he did is thorough as shit.

Okabe always wanted to be some mad scientist but we found out halfway that he is just saying that for fun. Now look at Toshio for a change, Okabe needs 10 more testicles to be half of what Toshio is and 20 more testicles to be as crazy as him.

Toshio is one crazy motherfucker. He is so crazy that he used ice-packs to preserve his wife’s dead body so he can do some actual practical experiment on how to kill a vampire. He is the kind of lead everyone wants in their horror movie because he gets shit done and doesn’t run away.

Normally in a horror movie, people will only find out the monster’s weakness during the last act but Toshio is too much of a badass for that. He says fuck that shit and did what everyone wanted to do – let her annoying wife die and wait for her to turn into the monster then experiment with it. It’s also not some simple experiment like shitting in her mouth or something. It’s hardcore shit like pumping 1000 types of poison into her then stab the fucking shit out of her heart without feeling any remorse.

Ask any other characters from other anime to do that and they will hide in their room and cry. Toshio is too much of a man to cry. He doesn’t even give a shit that his wife is dead and goes on with life. In fact, he was excited with his findings and didn’t get all depress and whinny. After finding out the fact, he also didn’t do stupid shit like kids in horror movie do because he knows that no one will believe him if he just cry to his parents. He did the smartest thing by using his man charm to lure the monster out to the public and show everyone that monsters exist.

Look at that smirk I posted above, that’s the face of outsmarting your enemy and knowing you can finally kill her by putting a stake in her heart after luring her out using your man charm. Oh and his mother dies after that because other monster wanted revenge and he totally didn’t give a shit about it. It’s like oh, my mom is dead but look, it’s a blood trail! Follow it and kill more monsters! Thanks mom for leading me to monster!

Toshio Ozaki is just too badass for words to describe. It will be better if I give you examples.

If Toshio is in Madoka, he will outsmart kyubey and dissect the shit out of him because that’s exactly what he did in Shiki.

If Toshio is in Code Geass, the season will end within 12 episodes because Toshio will get shit done and not fuck things out. If a cat stole his helmet, he won’t give a shit and just rush into Norio Wakamoto’s house and kill the shit out of him.

Toshio Ozaki is so manly that he cheated death with a smirk. Now look at that grin again. Pure beauty.

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I definitely found him interesting as well, but let’s be honest here. He’s a significantly different type of character on purpose. I don’t expect him to be like Lelouch because that’s not his role with the story.

Shiki was certainly a far more nihilistic tale, with a pessimistic outlook on the destructive nature of man. Which is one of the reasons I enjoyed it, but not everything is supposed to be like that.

And the thing is, even Toshio Ozaki eventually needed to be brainwashed and commanded by someone else to never give up or lose his resolve.

In other words, after that point he was basically running on auto-pilot because the plot needed him to lose any semblance of human weakness.

Yes, the earlier scene with him and his wife does show he already had the cold, clinical outlook and even just the nerve to be almost unfeeling if the situation arguably required it (you can argue that may not have been the only choice, in retrospect), but the story took him even further in that direction by artificially reinforcing that characteristic to an unnatural degree.

I will be the first to admit that the comparison between Ozaki with Lelouch and Okabe is facetious. I thought the general direction of the post itself is obvious enough to explain that without explicitly telling the readers so.

I was just thinking how Code Geass with Ozaki will be so much better for me. It’s more of the exploration and introduction of what I really enjoy rather than actual criticism or comparison to Code Geass.

The comparison with Okabe is also superficial and was derived from the thin thread of “Mad Scientist”. I will admit that Okabe’s name is just an excuse for me to write testicles and crazy motherfucker.

With that said, after more serious consideration, I believe that the determination Lelouch had in his final act, is very similar to Ozaki. The desperation of Okabe, resulting in him not giving a shit anymore(desensitized) after he time traveled so many times is also very similar to Ozaki. The experimental nature of Okabe during his time to save Mayuri is similar as well.

The final stage of these 3 characters and how they got there shared a lot of similarity and actual comparisons can be made but that’s not my intention with this post. I think my main point is how much I love Ozaki because unlike Lelouch and Okabe, he gets competent so fast without any long stretch of running around aimlessly while acting all stupid.

In other words, after that point he was basically running on auto-pilot because the plot needed him to lose any semblance of human weakness.

Yes, the earlier scene with him and his wife does show he already had the cold, clinical outlook and even just the nerve to be almost unfeeling if the situation arguably required it (you can argue that may not have been the only choice, in retrospect), but the story took him even further in that direction by artificially reinforcing that characteristic to an unnatural degree.

By the final act, most of the human characters need to lose semblance of human weakness so you will be more sympathetic with the Shiki. There’s also a logical explanation why all the human characters acted that way and they have had their limelight with the first half of the show where Shiki are portrayed as pure, unsympathetic evil. The intention for that direction is for good balance where it tries to focus on things one at a time instead of jumbling out and make a mess out of it. With that said, the show also didn’t forget in trying to gear back it focus on the human characters sometimes without losing the focus of making Shiki’s the sympathetic one. It also provides good entertainment by having creative twist to your usual horror cliche where the humans have finally, overwhelmingly and convincingly triumph the monsters without much struggle or danger and make the monsters the weak one.

Shiki was certainly a far more nihilistic tale, with a pessimistic outlook on the destructive nature of man. Which is one of the reasons I enjoyed it, but not everything is supposed to be like that.

Of course not everything is supposed to be like Shiki with its cynical outlook and I am pretty sure I didn’t imply that. I however did imply that I enjoyed the characterization of Ozaki and will prefer if more anime characters acted like him instead of being all weak and whiny.